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What's missing is the elephant in the room: all the freebies, the wining and dining, the virtual bribing of doctors,


Fran Hawthorne

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As we wave our goodbyes,
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TERENCE T. GORSKI It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of c...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratif...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one tha...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Shall we never, never get rid of this Past? cried he, keeping up the earnest tone of his preceding c...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it le...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the trues...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them,...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revel...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, a...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self !
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Word's so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and e...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE What we call real estate, the solid ground to build a house on, is the broad foundation on which nea...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Shame, Depair, Soltude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones,- and they had made her str...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach
MARK HAWTHORNE It allowed public-land managers to prohibit anything at all if it might harm some resource.
BRIAN HAWTHORNE I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.
MAX HAWTHORNE Do anything, save to lie down and die!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfal...
MAYER HAWTHORNE They have accepted everything we've asked them to do and are playing a high level of volleyball.
EMILY HAWTHORNE At this point, she's our most improved player. She is still building confidence. Since she is about ...
EMILY HAWTHORNE Those two have pushed themselves and pushed the team to play at a higher level.
EMILY HAWTHORNE I think most of it comes from each person knowing their role on the team.
EMILY HAWTHORNE A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE